pondering love

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pondering “love”By: Camille Deangelis

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<< what’s love >>Love is giving.Love is living.Love is taking someones load.Love helps them along the road.Love is caring.Love is sharing.Love will seek the best for others.Love treats everyone as brothers

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About the author Camille DeangelisCamille DeAngelis was born in November 1980 inNew Jersey, where she still lives (most of the time).She received a B.A. in Art History from New YorkUniversity in 2002. During her time at NYU shewrote and worked for the Washington SquareNews and spent an idyllic semester at La Pietra inFlorence. After graduating, she worked as aneditorial assistant in a nonfiction imprint atHarperCollins.

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About the close readingThere is no doubt that this text is a prose.A prose of love, the overused word whosepower has been diluted by long time ofmisuse.What’s love? what’s the true meaning oflove? Are you confused about this wordlike the author?In my opinion, love has nothing to do withwhat you are expecting to get, only with whatyou are expecting to give.

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different people have different opinions on love, but thedictionary definition of love states that it is a profoundlytender, passionate affection for another person or a feelingof warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for aparent, child, or friend.love is something personal, and theres no right orwrong way to describe it.In general, love is a positive feeling. we need love.Like the author said: love can never be completelydefined; ultimately the only definition that is you own.So, try you best to gain the love, it enlivens all theliving beings; we cannot live without it .

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Key Sentences1. I can say for sure,however ,that love is notlogical. The goal in the pursuit of logic isabsolute truth and even perfection,neither ofwhich is compatible with love.2. Love has nothing to do with what you areexpecting to get----only with what you areexpecting to give----which is everything.

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3. Perhaps a more refined definition would bethat "love" is wanting( but not needing) the otherperson in your life for always, because ideally Iwant to be a much better person for havingknown him. Questions for you to discuss: 1. Everyone in this world has to be independent for living.

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One definition states that if you truly lovesomeone, you find you simply cannot live withoutthem. So can we just love someoneindependently? Will we lose our indenpendce ifwe get into love someone?2.Through this text about love, what is love inyour own opinion? Discuss this question bylinking to our own life experience.3. As we know, LOVE is a very sophisticatedaffection that we cannot avoid being exposed to itin our daily lives .Just think about in such amaterial and real society, is there true love in thebottom of peoples hearts? why do most peoplealways focus on material things?

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4.Most men have a common idea that most girlslove cars, diamonds,luxury things,like brandname bags,etc. Just in a rational angle, why dothey have this such ridiculous thoughts? Andwhats your own view of this point?Some other things about this text:1. The introduction of U2http://baike.baidu.com/view/7772.htm